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Letters

01 September 1950 Comments Letters S I R S , -- I n their paper on this subject in British Birds, vol. xlii, p. 325, David and Elizabeth Lack write t h a t Dr. D. A. Bannerman in his note on Chaffinch Migration in .British Birds, vol. xxxvii, p . 177, supposed t h a t the birds he saw in N...

Reviews

01 September 1950 Comments Reviews Report of the Natural History Section of the Wiltshire Archcsological &· Natural History Society, 1947 and 1948. Some of the interesting records in these two carefully compiled reports have already appeared in British Birds : a Roller reported (antea, v...

Notes

01 September 1950 Comments Notes WITH regard to the swimming of small passerines (antea, vol. xl, pp. 179, vol. xlii, p. 183, vol. xliii, p. 121), the following incidents may be of interest. At the Eye Brook Reservoir, Leicestershire, a colony of Tree-Sparrows (Passer montanus) uses the...

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

01 September 1950 Comments Main paper The recoveries of Starling (Sturnus vulgaris), Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus), Common Gull (Larus canus), and Teal (Anas crecca) from Dutch decoys, are too numerous to be included. To the list of Ringing Stations already published*, one not previou...

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain in 1949

01 September 1950 Comments Main paper THE Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) has now firmly established itself as a summer resident in England. In 1949 at least twenty-seven pairs spent the summer at fifteen localities in eight counties ; eighteen pairs are known to have bred and at lea...

Notes

01 June 1939 Comments Notes THE recent note about Blackbirds (Turius m. merula) feeding on small fish (antea, Vol. XXXII, p. 397) recalls to me that six or seven years ago I watched a pair take repeatedly small tadpoles from a shallow bay of the Little Exe, above Dulverton. Both bir...

Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper IN response to the editorial appeal (antea, Vol. XXXII, p, 118) for information on cliff-breeding in the House-Martin (Delichon u, urbica) a number of observers have sent in records. From these it is obvious that breeding under natural conditions is far m...

Notes on the Lapwing and Curlew Breeding Population of a Cumberland Farm

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper 1937 and 1938 a census was undertaken of' the Lapwings (Vaneihts vanellus) and Curlews (Numenius a. atquata) breeding on an area of farm-land in Cumberland extending to 650 acres or approximately one square mile. This area is about three hundred feet abov...

Some Notes on the Diurnal Song of Birds

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper (Plate i.) H. G. ALEXANDER in his invaluable paper on the "Song of Birds " (antea, Vol. XXIX, pp. 190-8) dealt with, as it may be called, the " longitudinal aspect" of the subject, that is to say with the duration of song between the beginning and end of ...

Additions and Alterations to the British List

01 June 1939 Comments Main paper changes appearing in Volume II. of The Handbook of British Birds have not previously been notified in these pages and these are briefly referred to below. In addition there are some changes in Volume III., and as this is about to be published it will be c...

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Letters

Reviews

Notes

British recoveries of birds ringed abroad

The Little Ringed Plover in Great Britain in 1949

Notes

Cliff-Breeding in the House-Martin

Notes on the Lapwing and Curlew Breeding Population of a Cumberland Farm

Some Notes on the Diurnal Song of Birds

Additions and Alterations to the British List

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